Display-stand.



Patented ned. u, |900. J. B. WHITE.

DISPLAY STAND.

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/NVENTOR @mit rrliC@ JAMES BERT WHITE, OF HASTINGS, NEBRASKA.`

DISPLAY-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 663,838, dated December 11,-1900.

Application filed .Tune 11, 1900.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JAMES BERT WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hastings, in the county of Adams and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Stands; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in display-stands, and particularly that class of display stands known as oil-cloth exhibitors, and has for its object to produce a rotatable stand adapted to retain a number of rolls of oil-cloth in positions in Which they may be readily seen 0r removed for inspection. I attain this object by supporting a vertical standard on a suitable pedestal and loosely mounting` thereon a bottom tray and one or more perforated upper disks, which are rigidly secured together by a number of stay-rods, so they will turn in unison.

With the above and other objects in view my invention further consists in the novel details of construction and combination of parts to be clearly described in the following specification and fully set forth in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, in which like characters of reference indicate similar parts throughout, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved exhibitor. Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectional view thereof, and Fig. 3 isa bottom plan view of the top disk.

In the drawings,l represen ts avertical standard mounted on a suitable pedestal 2 of sufficient size to give rigidity to the device When filled with rolls of oil-cloth. A circular tray 3, with an upwardly-extending flange 4 around its periphery, is secured toa hub 5, loosely mounted on the standard l and bearing on top of the pedestal 2, so as to be capable of easily turning thereon. A perforated top disk 6, having a central cross-brace 7, is loosely mounted on the upper end of the standard and is connected with the tray 3 by means of Serial No. 19,823. (No model.)

a number of stay-rods 8, joined at their upperends to the cross-brace '7 and at their lower ends to the top of the tray 3, With their intermediate portions converging and attached to a block 9, seated on a sleeve 10, which is threaded to the standard l. An intermediate disk 1l, with perforations registering With the perforations of the disk 6, is mounted on the block 9, with the stay-rods S passing therethrough and is adapted to turn on the standard l With the disk 6 and tray From the foregoing it will be seen that with a display-stand of this description a number of rolls of oil-cloth or the like may be passed from above through the perforations in the disks 6 and ll and rested on the tray 3,as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and when thus mounted a great many patterns may be eX- amined in a very small space With little or no inconvenience, and when it is desired the rolls may be readily removed and replaced by others.

It is obvious that numerous changes and alterations in the details of construction and arrangement of parts of my invention, as here set forth, may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, such as dispensing With the intermediate disk and depending on the upper disk alone for supporting the rollson the tray.

Having fullydescribed my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a device of the character described, a suitably-supported standard, a tray mounted thereon capable of turning, a perforated disk also mounted on the standard, stay-rods connecting the disk with the tray and having their intermediate portions converging, a sleeve threaded on the standard, and a block seated 4on the sleeve and attached to the converging portions of the stay-rods, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character described, a pedestal, a standard supported thereby, a hub mounted on the standard and bearing on the pedestal, a tray attached to the hub and provided with an upwardly-extending flange around its outer edge, a perforated disk mounted on the upper end of the standrated disk mounted ou the standard and seatard, a cross-brace secured to the center of ed on the block, substantially as described. 1o said, disk, stay-rods Connecting the eross- In testimony whereof I affix my signature brace With the tray and having their interin presence of two Witnesses.

mediate portions converging, a sleeve thread- JAMES BERT WHITE. ed on the standard, a block seated on the Witnesses: sleeve and connected to the converging por- WALTER M. CROW,

tions of the stay-rods, and a second perfo- I JOHN C. STEVENS. 

